Last week, another topical masterpiece from India hit the Chinese screen. Although it was strongly recommended by Aamir Khan, it did not seem to cause any splash this time. Neither word of mouth nor box office exceeded any Indian film released this year. .
"Sultan" is the sixth Indian film to be released in mainland China this year, almost more than the total number of Indian films released in China in the previous three years.
"Sultan" mainly tells the story of Sultan, the son of a farmer from a small town in northern India, who falls in love at first sight with Alpha, a woman who is a wrestling coach, and aspires to become a wrestling champion in pursuit of her.
And Salman Khan, one of the "Three Khans of India", played the role of "Sultan". In March this year, "Uncle of the Monkey God of Little Lolita" starring him was released, which has touched countless audiences.
Originally thought "Sultan" was "Wrestling!" The follow-up work of "Dad" is also based on wrestling in sports competitions, but in fact the former was released in India several months earlier than the latter, so in terms of creation, it did not deliberately strike while the iron is hot, but chose "Wrestling". Bar! "Dad" was released on another day after it became popular in China, which must be suspected of being popular.
Since the film was released, it has not attracted the attention of netizens like the previous Indian films. As of the eighth day of its release, the cumulative box office was only 31.28 million, and the final box office is predicted to be in the range of 40 million. Compared with the previous five Indian films released in the mainland, this result is much inferior.
In terms of production quality, "Sultan" is indeed better than "Wrestle!" "Dad" is far behind, the plot is not as compact as the latter, the music in the whole film is too full, and there is basically no promotion function for the plot, the singing and dancing scenes are quite satisfactory, not as gorgeous as before, and lacking logic.
This stems from the local movie viewing habits and regional culture in India, so it is difficult to break through this model. Cultural differences make it difficult for mainland audiences to adapt, resulting in a protracted plot and a long story.
With wrestling as the theme, wrestling must be the highlight of the film, but the Indian wrestling in the first half of the film is not realistic enough, just playing with a few iconic moves, which looks flashy.
In the second half of the modern free wrestling, although the passion gradually ignited, it was a pity that it was just a piece of poses, which was too unrealistic, unable to make people feel shocking, and ended abruptly without creating a good tense atmosphere.
Probably because too much time was spent on those uninteresting singing and dancing and fragmentary clips, so the competition process can only be so "refined and brief". Although "Sultan" has so many imperfections that it cannot compete with "Wrestle!" "Dad" is regarded as a masterpiece, but it definitely deserves a bowl of nutritious and inspirational chicken soup.
The former is for national honor and the awakening of female consciousness, while the latter is for love and the redemption of a "broken" family.
Shortly after the movie started, I was shocked by this sentence posted on the wall - kill a girl, how does your son marry a wife?
A simple sentence reflects how low the status of girls (women) in India is. Women have always been discriminated against in Indian society. When I watched "Bollywood Life and Death", I only knew that I cursed people in India. The most vicious sentence turned out to be: I hope you have a daughter too.
One of the most radiant characters in "Sultan", I think it is the heroine Alpha. She has ideals and ideas, and even dreams of winning a gold medal in the world competition, winning the respect of the world, and using her own thinking to conquer big men doctrine.
Until she met Sultan and became pregnant with his child, she had to give up her dream, all her efforts, and withdraw from the coveted opportunity to compete.
At the same time, she pinned her hopes on the sultan, and worked with her father to train the sultan and let the sultan realize his lofty dreams. It was her existence that made Sudan, and Sudan was the gold medal she won, she turned an illiterate peasant into a world champion, so she is the greatest character in the story.
But when her newborn child died, everything changed. She told her husband who had just won the world championship: "Sultan, you won, but we lost." One insisted on dreaming for love, the other gave up for love The dream, in the end, did not escape the teasing of fate. The king on the battlefield turned out to be so powerless in life.
When Afar asked the Sultan whether he thought the baby was a boy or a girl when he was pregnant for the first time, the Sultan said confidently and proudly that it must be a boy, and he would teach his children to wrestle. What is reflected here is not only the phenomenon of patriarchal preference, but also the idea of patriarchal chauvinism.
At the end of the story, Alpha is pregnant again. She asks the same question to Sultan again, and Sultan's answer is that she hopes to have a girl. Remember the most vicious words in India? The idea of patriarchy has finally been changed, and this is the credit of Afar.
Behind every successful man, there is a woman; behind every failed man, there is also a woman, but no woman is willing to stand behind a loser. This sermon in the movie is obviously also for us. Let's make this bowl of chicken soup, which can make up for the soul lacking in spirit.
Regarding the pursuit of dreams and the pursuit of dignity, Sultan used his strong will to tell us that life is also a wrestling match. We are fighting against countless obstacles every day. The biggest opponent we face is actually ourselves.
Obviously we have always been the losers who got beaten up, but we are all wrestlers in the survival competition. We can't give up easily, and we will never accept the ridicule and setbacks in life, because only those who have lost can understand success. value, just as those who have been insulted can earn respect.
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